From 68ad9845aa917b960e2bd37088a617fad521c324 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=B6rg=20Sautter?= <joerg.sautter@gmx.net>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 17:15:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [grid] do not create unused HttpResponse instances

---
 .../openqa/selenium/grid/web/RoutableHttpClientFactory.java    | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/java/src/org/openqa/selenium/grid/web/RoutableHttpClientFactory.java b/java/src/org/openqa/selenium/grid/web/RoutableHttpClientFactory.java
index 44a21c5c5fef6..d3576bd9f922e 100644
--- a/java/src/org/openqa/selenium/grid/web/RoutableHttpClientFactory.java
+++ b/java/src/org/openqa/selenium/grid/web/RoutableHttpClientFactory.java
@@ -56,9 +56,8 @@ public HttpClient createClient(ClientConfig config) {
       return new HttpClient() {
         @Override
         public HttpResponse execute(HttpRequest request) throws UncheckedIOException {
-          HttpResponse response = new HttpResponse();
-
           if (!handler.test(request)) {
+            HttpResponse response = new HttpResponse();
             response.setStatus(404);
             response.setContent(
                 asJson(